Weerasethakul uses his aesthetics with a certain subtlety to accentuate, between sounds and visual poetry, the link with nature that seems to have been lost among the memories of solitary beings alienated by the urban climate. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 13, 2024

Memoria is director Apichatpong Weerasethakul at his best and most daring, with its hypnotic tone and startlingly refreshing conclusion.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 18, 2024

Memoria entices with its aural preoccupations, but the film is rich with many other ideas and explorations.

| Jul 28, 2023

Weerasethakul expertly manipulates our auditory senses to make us feel fear, peace, and anxiety as we watch his feature.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2023

Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria is both romantic and hallucinatory, sumptuously presented and emotionally engaging piece of magical realism that explores and expands the limitations of human experience.

| Original Score: 90/100 | Nov 18, 2022

The film casts a wonderful spell—a warm, comforting spell that wipes clear the doors of perception—and it could only work in a theatrical setting.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 6, 2022

Explores our relationships with ourselves, with others, and with the earth itself, capturing how every single molecule on this planet is influenced by the history of all that has come before it.

| Original Score: A | Sep 22, 2022

A bewitching whisper of a film that leaves the imprint of a haunting banger.

| Aug 29, 2022

"What was that sound?” is another way of asking: What do I know about the material world and how it behaves? Memoria’s sound design nudges prosaic scraps of ambient noise into the spotlight.

| Aug 19, 2022

One sequence, set by a riverside outside of Bogotá, depicts the thin line between life and death with heart-stopping clarity, making us aware of the smallest physical movements that prove more mesmerizing and rewarding than the typical spectacle...

| Jul 9, 2022

An untransferable experience that is also shared simultaneously, much like the epiphany of a memory that we remember as our own, but then find out others also treasure it. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 7, 2022

The film could've also been titled Mystery. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 7, 2022

We're at the time of dusk when the world is plunged into gloom and sounds have become sedating white noise. We're in a Weerasethakul film, and his camera seems to want us to close our eyes. But no, you can't really sleep on this. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 5, 2022

Plunged into the sweetest, most vertiginous epiphany, this critic found himself transported to an original state, seeing the real [world] with fresh eyes as if it were the first time. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 5, 2022

A trip to the past, to the collective memories of society and all the preexisting cultures that inhabited the land... Offers ideas on Buddhist meditations more than a political commentary. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 5, 2022

Memoria is a psychedelically inspired allegory, an impressionistic inquiry into human existence, including ignorance and insight, suffering and enlightenment.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 2, 2022

[Weerasethakul and Swinton are] both devastatingly precise in what they do, too, and also delightfully expressive. And, they each force you to pay the utmost attention to their every single choice as well.

| Jun 24, 2022

"Memoria" is a masterwork for the most devoted of movie fans who need an escape from the noise of the modern world. It's wildly beautiful and imaginative, challenging your patience and outlooks on life and death.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 31, 2022

“Memoria” should be experienced, if one is comfortable doing so, in a theater with a rich sound system. The journey Weerasethakul takes us on is sonic as well as cinematic, and that takes some extra space.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 29, 2022

Apichatpong's film – which is, yes, a fundamental experience to understand the future of contemporary audiovisual media – becomes an absolutely hypnotic cross between the work of Borges and 'Close Encounters or the Third Kind'. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 27, 2022